France possesses approximately 300 nuclear warheads.[1] Its arsenal includes four Le Triomphant class submarines, stationed at Ile Longue in Bretagne. Each submarine can carry up to 16 M45 missiles, which can in turn be armed with six warheads each. [2] The M45 missiles are slowly being replaced with longer range M51 missiles. The M51 will be further modernised starting in 2015.[i] France also arms three squadrons of planes with air-to-surface missiles (ASMP) and has twenty Super Étendard fighter-bombers stationed on the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle.[3]

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Don't Bank on the Bomb identifies both financial institutions that invest heavily in companies involved in nuclear weapon programmes and those that have policies limiting or prohibiting such investments.